Archives

March 2019

• New Cache of Objects Discovered beneath Chichen Itza (chichen itza)

February 2019

• Maya Symbology: Parrot (ruins, symbology, uxmal)
• The Observatory at Chichen Itza (El Caracol) (chichen itza)
• Palo Volante, Chichicastenango (fiestas, highlands)

October 2017

• Chicken Bus, Antigua, Guatemala (highlands)

May 2017

• Flowers in Mesoamerica (symbology)
• Carved Mirror-Back with Hieroglyphs (archaeology)

April 2017

• Cardamom growing in Guatemala (plants)

March 2017

• Balam Ajpu: Maya Hiphop as Political and Cultural Expression (music)
• Women, Latin America, and the U.S. (politics)

August 2016

• Mexico returns to its roots (food)
• Travel in Mesoamerica and the Maya World (travel)
• History of Mesoamerica and the Maya World (history)
• Culture of Mesoamerica and the Maya World (culture)
• Mesoamerican animal husbandry (animals, archaeology, food)
• Child labor in Guatemala (people, photography, politics)

July 2012

• Maya quiz (beliefs)

June 2011

• Howlers (scholarship)

July 2010

• Drinking vessel, 600-800 CE (animals, museums)

April 2010

• Photo Wednesday: Water delivery (yucatan)

August 2009

• Photo Wednesday: The Stone of the Sun (archaeology)
• Maya foods that changed world cuisine (food)
• Friday roundup (links)
• Photo Wednesday: Hanging plants (yucatan)
• Friday roundup (links)
• Photo Wednesday: Colorful hammocks (photography)

July 2009

• Photo Wednesday: Beach near Tulum (beaches)
• Friday roundup (links)

April 2009

• Guatemala in danger (politics)

March 2009

• A new discovery at El Mirador (archaeology, art, ruins)

February 2009

• Happy Haab 5125 (fiestas, ritual, sports)
• Friday roundup (links)

January 2009

• Landslide death toll rises (news)

December 2008

• Photo Wednesday: Furniture delivery (highlands)

November 2008

• Maya playing cards (links)
• Friday roundup (links)
• Maya multiplication (mathematics)

October 2008

• Viene el dia de los muertos (fiestas)

July 2008

• Turtles at Monterrico (animals, beaches)
• Sea turtle project at La Barrona Hatchery, Guatemala (animals, beaches)
• Sea turtles at Monterrico, Guatemala (beaches)
• Black sand beach, Monterrico, Guatemala (beaches)

June 2008

• Photo Wednesday: Maximon (beliefs)
• Wilfredo Lam and Carlos Luna (art)
• Is that Maximon playing the marimba? (beliefs)
• Photo Wednesday: painted bowls (photography)
• Mexico's best natural attractions (natural world)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Photo Wednesday: Agua Volcano, Antigua, Guatemala (highlands, photography)
• Tropical storm Arthur batters Belize (Uncategorized)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Volver volver (music)

May 2008

• Back soon (Uncategorized)
• Photo Wednesday: motmots (natural world)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Photo Wednesday: Painted table top (art)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Juan Soriano at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (art)
• Photo Wednesday (food, yucatan)
• Mexico and the modern print (art)
• A Maya suspension bridge? (archaeology, architecture)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Ancient Maya produced high-quality textiles (archaeology, copan, textiles)

April 2008

• Photo Wednesday (architecture)
• Precolumbian treasures confiscated in Germany (news)
• The war on plants (food, history)
• Photo Wednesday (chichen itza)
• Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala (natural world)
• Maya temples (music)
• Historical images of the Puuc region (puuc)
• Adding up the bones (aztecs, history, mathematics)
• Edweard Muybridge (history)
• Photo quiz, part 4 (Uncategorized)
• Photo quiz, part 3 (highlands, history)
• Photo quiz, continued (highlands)

March 2008

• Photo quiz (highlands)
• 113 images of Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala (highlands)
• Guatemalan worry dolls (crafts, highlands)
• Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala (highlands)
• La Maldicion de Malinche (history, music)
• Dog bites gringa (health)
• Photo Friday (highlands)
• Fine dining around Merida (restaurants)
• Yucatan color (crafts)
• Hillary Cumbia (politics)
• Maria Felix (film/video)

February 2008

• Friday Roundup (links)
• Maya symbology: jaguar (architecture, beliefs, symbology)
• Maya blue (discoveries)
• Travels with Judas (Uncategorized)
• Viva Obama (politics)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Maximon graphic (beliefs)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Heist (art)
• Scratchboard Maximon (art)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Guatemalan paintings from Arte Maya Tz'utuhil (art)
• Nim Po't, textile and folk art cooperative, La Antigua, Guatemala (textiles)
• Mayan glyphs as a truetype font set (literature)
• Friday Roundup (links)

January 2008

• Rompope (food)
• Antigua through the back door (highlands)
• Beyond your expectations (popularization)
• Dazzling temples (archaeology)
• Wines of Baja (food)
• Flycatcher Inn, Santa Elena (hotels)
• Green Belize (belize)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Mexico's oldest bar closes (history)
• Columbus and microbial globalism (history)
• Ciudad Flores Petén II , Guatemala (peten)
• Kate Spade Mayan Riviera Ava Clutch (coast)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Another Andy Palacio video (belize, music)
• Andy Palacio (music)
• Guatemalan slingshots (crafts)
• Ancient pyramid found in Mexico City (archaeology, aztecs, discoveries)

December 2007

• Antigua elves bring seasons tidings (highlands)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala (highlands)
• Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (literature)
• Maximon masks (art)
• Aztec tomb discovered (archaeology, aztecs)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Gráficas Políticas: Mexican Prints, 1900—1950 (Uncategorized)
• First Tortilla (literature)
• Poinsettias (Uncategorized)
• Francis Ford Coppola's hotels in Belize and Guatemala (belize, hotels)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Fuego volcano eruption (highlands)
• Museums in Merida (art)
• Meet the crocodiles (kabah)
• Protecting butterflies (natural world)

November 2007

• Friday Roundup (links)
• From trash to cash (art)
• $3 million Mexican painting removed from auction (art)
• Cell phones in Cancun (art)
• Dia de los Muertos: A New Beginning (art, fiestas, museums)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Por que no te callas? (music, politics)
• How do you say "a sad situation" in Ayapan Zoque? (languages)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Aged chocolate (ritual)
• Feeling Lazy (beaches, coast)
• Chiminos Island Lodge (archaeology, hotels, natural world, peten)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Floods in Tabasco (news, water)
• View from the Mohoch Mul temple, Coba (coba, ruins)
• Fiambre, a classic Guatemalan dish (food)
• VIP behind bars (film/video, politics)
• Colom wins! (politics)
• Friday Roundup (links)
• Casa de Montejo, Merida (archaeology)

October 2007

• Amoebas (water)
• The Yucatan as a garden (natural world)
• Unusual Guatemalan embroidery (museums, symbology, textiles)
• Inventory of a Dawn (literature)
• Montezuma Natural Wildlife Refuge (popularization)
• What is this? (natural world)
• Maya hot chocolate (food)
• Sites we like: La Casa Azteca (archaeology, news)
• Sites we like: La Antigua Daily Photo (architecture, art, food, highlands, towns)
• Is development out of control on the Mexican Riviera? (coast)
• Tikal admission hike (ruins)
• Maximon (beliefs)
• Huitlacoche (food)
• San Jose El Viejo, Antigua, Guatemala (architecture)
• Love birds (natural world)
• White-Tailed Deer release in Guatemala (natural world)
• Dichos (literature)
• The ruins of Santa Teresa, La Antigua, Guatemala (archaeology, highlands)
• Mudejar architecture in La Antigua, Guatemala (architecture, highlands)
• Robert Hansen's Yucatan photography (art)
• Samuel Barrera (art)

September 2007

• View of temple 1, Tikal, from east plaza (architecture, art, natural world, ruins)
• Maya stela (art)
• The Black Christ of Esquipulas (churches, fiestas, towns)
• The motmot (natural world)
• More Carnival in Merida (fiestas)
• The Maya vote (politics)
• Carnival in Merida (fiestas)
• El Bus (literature)
• Platanos en mole (food)
• Pink Floyd and Chichen Itza (chichen itza, popularization)
• Mas trafico con BlogRush? (Uncategorized)
• Easter carpets in Antigua (fiestas, food, highlands)
• Felipe (people)
• Lycaste skinneri var. alba (natural world)
• The Art of Political Murder (literature, politics)
• Runoff (politics)
• Guatemala election polls (politics)
• The Garifuna Journey (belize, coast, history)
• Photography of Ivan Castro (people, resources)
• Rigoberto Menchu campaigning in Poptun (politics)

August 2007

• Bloody build-up to Guatemala elections continues (politics)
• Felipe Carrillo Puerto (politics)
• Hot waterfall (water)
• Manioc (food, history)
• Tulum and Dean (coast, ruins)
• Vanilla or Chocolate? (food)
• The fountain at La Merced, Antigua, Guatemala (architecture, highlands, history)
• Casita in Mixco, Guatemala (highlands, history, urbanization)
• Kites (highlands)
• National Geographic's Maya Feature (popularization)
• Revolution in Guatemala, 1944 (history, literature, politics)
• Deadly elections in Guatemala (highlands, politics)
• Zacatenango (highlands, music)

July 2007

• Antigua Door Knockers (architecture, art, highlands)
• Gibson Girl (popularization)
• Stela B, Copan (art, copan, history)
• Are we done now? (popularization)
• Borges at Uxmal (history, uxmal)
• Apocalypse 2012 (popularization)

June 2007

• The Railroad All-Stars (issues, news, popularization)
• Four Keys to Haggling (trade)
• Maya Symbology: Bat (copan, popul vuh, symbology)
• Wedding Hotels in the Maya Riviera (hotels, maps)
• Mayan Theater, Los Angeles (chichen itza, popularization, uxmal)
• Song clips from the "golden age" of Mexican popular music (music)
• Aventura (belize, history, ruins)

May 2007

• Interactive Copan Map (copan, maps, ruins)
• Alto in Antigua (highlands)
• Processual and Postprocessual, Emic and Etic (archaeology)
• Xoloitzcuintles (Uncategorized)
• Ancient Offerings Found at Nevado de Toluca (aztecs, discoveries, trade)
• Bagel Barn in Antigua (highlands, restaurants)
• Mayan Languages and the Origin of the Maya (history)
• Old School Maya Archaeology (archaeology, history)
• Cumbia del Mole (music)
• Wonders (chichen itza)
• Ancient Maya Tomb Found in Copan (copan, discoveries)
• Penguins in Bed (music)
• Maya Architecture and the Golden Mean (architecture, copan, mathematics)
• The Great Collapse of the Classic Maya (history)
• The Maya Region (geography)
• Maya Symbology: Turtle (resources, symbology, uxmal)
• The Hand of Time (kabah, ruins)
• in process (Uncategorized)

April 2007

• The Observatory at Chichen Itza (chichen itza, ruins)

February 2007

• The Cult of the Talking Cross (history)